you should PPP was literally right about everything. i remember @suicide2020 badgered @Captain Manning into admitting "Nick has changed/nick lied" after the 2nd time PPP was a guest.
IIRC (and mind you, it's been
three years and my memory isn't the greatest), PPP's second appearance was around the time Nick started getting a lot closer to Ralph, and that left enough of a bad taste in my mouth to where I was willing to be a
lot more critical of Rekieta than I was previous. I honestly don't recall what Suicide2020 and I discussed.
What funny to me is that the Ralph shit was only a tiny portent of things to come. It's almost "quaint" to discuss any of that now. In the years since, he's gotten
way worse than I, or I think
anyone (to include most of Nick's early critics). thought he would get. Yeah, I saw cracks in the façade, as said as much, but to be perfectly honest with you, if you had told me back in 2020 that he would be ramming a bottle up his ass, going to a Jamaican sex swinger resort, or defending Vito, I would have thought that insane. I tell people that I'm happy I distanced myself from him when I did, but that I don't consider myself a soothsayer. I was just as shocked as to how bad he's gotten as anyone.
In general, I think PPP was right about a lot of things, but I still think he was
dead wrong about NP2. So, no, he wasn't "literally right about everything." He grossly overreached when he tried to claim that Null was making moderation decisions on Dick's behalf, or that Dick was holding Null hostage somehow. To this day, none of that shit has ever been proven.
Null had to explain this again just recently because the whole "PPP was right" meme has become popular again:
I'm pretty sure PPP backtracked on a lot of the NP2 shit when he had Metokur on. Which is to say, I'm not even sure
he believes any of it anymore. While he still laments the fact that it was once hard for anybody in this thread to criticize Nick (which is true), he seems to have backed away from suggestion that was anything to do with NP2 or Dick. The thread was pro-Nick because the posters were once overwhelmingly pro-Nick. The site has always been more user driven than moderation driven. The sea change came in the form of Nick acting so incredibly stupid that no reasonable person could defend his actions anymore.
Personally, I think the NP2 shit is a wound best left closed. That shit got
really stupid and gay. Dick is a cow. Nick is a cow. Null has righteously called out both of them out for their faggotry. NP2 is dead. Whatever conditions once existed back in 2020 that people were making hay about, clearly aren't the conditions that exist now.
The way him and godwinson described why made sense. In theory once you start making money online your fate is sealed to become a lolcow, because now that its your job you have to do crazier shit and you'll eventually get worn down into being a lolcow.
That's not really true though. There are plenty of very financially successful Youtubers who don't have threads here. Content is what makes a cow. Not their financials.
PPP's argument was dumb.
Was being the operative word. He's since abandoned that argument.
Worth noting PPP also got his thread here when he
wasn't accepting money. People seem to have
WAY more respect for "honest money making PPP" over old PPP.